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, GIGAR MOLD. No. 302,177. Patented July 1.5.1884..

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FRANK VORNBERG AND ANTONY KOSMALSKI, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CIGAR-MOLD.-

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent No. 302,177,11atea July 15,1884.

Application filed october 2, ifea. (Modal.)

T all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK VoRNBnRG and ANTONY KosMALsKI, both ofCincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have jointly invented a new anduseful Improvement in GiganMolds, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention is an improvement in the class of cigar-molds themold-surface of whose cups7 or plungers is composed of sheet metal, theconstruction of our improved plunger being suoli as to avoid deformationof the mold-surface by driving of nails or other fastening devicesthrough the same, and such as to secure several other importantadvantages, hereinafter explained. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of acigar-mold embodying our invention, said mold being shown in its closedcondition. Fig. 2 represents aportion of a plunger part inverted. Fig. 3shows a plunger and a plug detached. Fig. 4 is avertical section on themidline of a plunger. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary transverse section.

A may represent any suitable matrix portion of a cigar-mold, the saidmatrix portion' being composed,preferably, of wood, as shown. Our cupsor plungers are each formed of a single piece of tin-plate, or othersheetA metal, which (by means Tof suitable dies) is made to assume theshape indicated in the drawings, in which the middle portion of thepiece is given the trough-like form B, corresponding to a longitudinalhalf of a cigalgand constitutes the matrix proper, and in which theimmediately adjoining parts are bent vertically or nearly -verticallybackward, as at C C, and thence horizontally outward, as at D D. rlheportions D D constitute Iianges, by which the plungers are fastened tothe back board, E, by means of nails or tacks F.

In the most complete form of our mold, a

short wooden plug, G, having been dipped in any suitable cement, isinserted in the interstice between the butt-end of the matrix and theback board.

Over customary cigar molds possessing metal-lined plungers our inventionhas several obvious advantages. For example, the mold-surface is whollyfree from defacement due to protruding nail-heads, as well as from thefrequent objectionable denting or bruising from mislicks7 made in theact of driving the nails-a work performed chiefly by boys. Ve avoid theexpense and labor of complete wooden bodies,7 with the costly machinesemployed in their fabrication, and we further avoid the contortion ofthe mold-surface ineident to the shrinking and swelling of such bodiesunder changing hygrom'etric condi tions. le also avoid destruction ofthewooden matrix-surface by the customary ragged edge of a metal-linedplunger. In association with a wooden matrix part, as preferred by us,such metal plungers are easily pressed into and withdrawn from theirmatrices, .there being'mucli less friction than occurs either with thecustomary ragged-edged met-al plunger, and greatly less than occurs inthe use of molds in which both parts are of the same material.

rlhe construction and material of the plungers secures an. elasticitywhich enables them to snugly fill their matrices without binding sotightly therein as to prevent proper closure of the plunger and matrixportions upon the filling, or so as to make their subsequent separationdifficult. rlhe objectionable depend- Vence on glue for attachment ofthecups to the backing is avoided.

So far as known, our device is the only form of cups or plungers forcigar-molds which combines the essential features of such a mold, inwhich each cup is stamped complete with its sustaining walls andfastening flavnges (of which those of each plunger are independentlynailed to the backing) from a single piece of sheet metal, in which saidwalls are vertical to the mold-parting, and terminate not in ent edges,but in the sheet-surface bent to the proper feather-edges, and aresustained by plugs at the butt-ends, in the manner exf plained.

We claim as new and of our invention'- In combination with a suitablematrix part` Aof a cigar-mold, a plunger part consisting of a series ofsheet-metal plunger-cups, each so formed of a single piece of sheetmetal as to present a half-mold trough, B, iianked by vertical or nearlyvertical supports@ C, having outtuined horizontal flanges D D for thelIn testimony of which invention wehe1'eu11 nails or taeks F, by whichthe @up is attached i to set'olul hands.

to the back board, said oups being` supported FRANK VORNBE'RG. at theirbutt-ends by short Wooden plugs G, ANTONY KOSMALSKI. and their advancingfeather -edges being Attest:

formed by the sharply bent or folded sheet, i GEO. H. KNIGHT,

as and for the purpose set forth. XVM. H. POPE.

